US Patent Issued to Spotify on Dec. 2 for "System for processing voice requests including wake word verification" (Swedish, Nigerien, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,787, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"System for processing voice requests including wake word verification" was invented by Daniel Bromand (Boston), Bjorn Erik Roth (Stockholm) and Nick Priem (Rotterdam, Niger).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing voice requests includes a voice assistant manager and a plurality of voice assistants. The voice assistant manager detects a wake word in an utterance and communicates the utterance to a voice assistant of the plurality of voice assistants. In some embodiments, the voice assistant may verify the detected wake word and communicate with a cloud servi...